The move is in complete defiance of the Lodha committee recommendations, which had called for a three-strong panel with all members having Test experience.

The Supreme Court had appointed the three-member Lodha Committee – retired Supreme Court Judges Ashok Bhan and RV Raveendran, being the other members — while delivering the landmark judgement in the IPL betting-fixing scandal case on 22 January last year.

The committee was constituted to determine quantum of punishment for the accused in the scandal, recommend reforms in the BCCI, and quantum of punishment, if any, for former IPL COO Sundar Raman, separately.

On 22 January last year, a two-member Supreme Court bench had given the Lodha Committee six months to submit its report, expiring on 21 July last year. On 14 July, the committee submitted a report on IPL teams Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), and CSK’s Gurunath Maiyappan and RR’s part-owner Raj Kundra.